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To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.
— Neil Gaiman
All that I want now is to live out my life in ease in a familiar world, to die in my own bed and be followed to the grave by old friends.
— J.M. Coetzee
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
— Mason Cooley
Friendship matters, especially in old age, when death reduces the number of one's friends.
— Marilyn Yalom
Sometimes I think of rebuilding my friendship with old friends. But at the same time, there's a reason why we fell off. Shit happens, but life's good.
— Manasa Rao
The table like old friends (as a matter of fact they were brothers).
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.
— John Le Carre
Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together.
— Tahereh Mafi
Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.
— W.C. Fields
The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.
— Phillips Brooks
My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he's lost it. The string came off!
— Bob Hope
All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.
— Brandy Norwood
Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.
— Helen Keller
Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels.
— Shannon L. Alder
I do not go to the reunions though because it make me feel old
— Dr Jenan Alatrakchi By Aleksandr Orlov A Simples Life
Any man who is friends with a woman has taken the old imagination out for a stroll to Kissing Avenue, then Lovers Lane, then Fucking Street.
— Lauren Blakely
While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time.
— John Edward Williams
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
— William Faulkner
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time?
— Hilton Als
I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart.
— Bjorn Lomborg
Suicide is a behavioral contagion. It's old adage "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, then would you, too?" Apparently, the answer is yes.
— Suzanne Young
She was at the same table near the back where three nights ago I'd sat entranced by her songs. And where the two of us had talked like old friends.
— Mike Bond
Never again do you find friends like the ones you have when you're fifteen years old.
— Fredrik Backman
It's less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.
— Frederick Buechner
The recipe for a long, happy life:
consult with old philosophers and young doctors,
consort with old friends and young women. — Arthur C. Clarke
consult with old philosophers and young doctors,
consort with old friends and young women. — Arthur C. Clarke
When my father was growing up inside the Old City of Jerusalem, he and his friends liked to trade desserts after diner.
— Naomi Shibab Nye
At the time of death, life may end, but I will continue to live in this beautiful world among my beloved new and old friends.
— Debasish Mridha
The dynamics are pretty much the same among me and my friends as they were when I was 18 years old.
— Danny McBride
We're stars, you know. Different, distant, young and old, but we're all made of the same stuff. We all shine just as bright as the next.
— Dannika Dark
I like the old words better. They're like old friends.
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
You know the old saying," said Nick. "Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.
— Mark Frost
And I was bitter. Bitterness and I were old friends by now, but at the moment bitterness was trying to go down my bra in public.
— Jennifer Echols
The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.
— Alfredo Di Stefano
In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right.
— Neil Young
The older you get, the easier it is for you to distinguish between your friends and people you are not seeing for the first time.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.
— John Selden
One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
— Rachel Field
Especially as I was an old friend, or at least I was a person she had known for a long time, which after a certain point is almost the same thing ...
— Julian Fellowes
Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life.
— Pat Conroy
The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.
— Fredrik Backman
It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
— Sinclair Lewis
And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends.
— Fish
We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.
— P.G. Wodehouse
What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.
— Shackerley Marmion
When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.
— Edvard Grieg
For a few moments in the evening, then, they talked quietly and casually, as if they were old friends or exhausted enemies.
— John Edward Williams
I love to snuggle up on the sofa wrapped in my duvet watching old black and white films, and catching up with friends and family on the phone.
— Martine McCutcheon
There's a Girl Scouts song I learned in elementary school: Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, and the other gold.
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world really is.
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
responsive. She now realized that the old adage 'he who wants friends must show himself friendly' was right.
— Brenda Barrett
I have a 13-year-old daughter who rents these bloody horror movies, and I can't even walk into the room when she's watching them with her friends.
— Brad Dourif
I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.
— Bella Thorne
They walked as old friends walk, without often speaking, sharing the kind of silence that is not so much silence as a kind of still communication.
— Susan Cooper
The meanest man in the world," he remarked, "is the man who forgets the old friends that helped him on an early day and over early difficulties.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I've been involved in the sport since I was seven-years-old and I have learned so many things in life from it, such as making friends and discipline.
— Jenny Meadows
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
— Mary Catherwood
When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.
— Troian Bellisario
The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The two of them just sort of clicked, like old friends who'd just met. Friends-at-first-sight, if there was such a thing.
— Michael J. Sullivan
They talked in the shorthand of old friends and shared memories.
— Dee Henderson
When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.
— Kirk Douglas
When old friends reconnect, there is a refreshing newness, after great memories wash over you, the stage is set for so many more.
— Tom Althouse
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
— George Eliot
The new is older than the old;
And newest friend is oldest friend in this:
That, waiting him, we longest grieved to miss
One thing we sought. — Helen Hunt Jackson
And newest friend is oldest friend in this:
That, waiting him, we longest grieved to miss
One thing we sought. — Helen Hunt Jackson
Old friends are the bricks and mortar of your life.
— Nora Roberts
Breezy days
deserve the union
of two old friends. — Sanober Khan
deserve the union
of two old friends. — Sanober Khan
There's no friends like the old friends.
— James Joyce
It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.
— Brad Meltzer
Old friends are the best friends.
— John Cameron Smith
When I see friends from school I think they've all grown old and I've stayed the same.
— Steve Coogan
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.
— Willa Cather
I'm the hardest working person I know. I'm 20 years old - is it a crime to want to go out dancing with my friends?
— Lindsay Lohan
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
— William Shakespeare
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
— Judith Viorst
Some of the worst enemies of the man who is seeking for the truth will appeal to him as old friends in whom he has had great confidence.
— Joseph French Johnson
The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
— Norm MacDonald
The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
— Sammy Davis Jr.
The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.
— Josh Billings
A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.
— Christopher Hitchens